The FBI is reassigning several female agents in supervision positions that kneel demonstrations of duration that protest police violence in the district of Columbia in 2020, according to several family people with the matter.
The measure has raised Conern Conns among the current and previous employees of the office that the FBI is taking measures against agents and analysts involved in situations reported by the allies of President Trump and the right -wing media. The agents seem to have sacrificed the legs that there is no reason for the decision, according to the people familiar with the matter.
It occurs after Kash Patel, the director of the FBI, testified before the duration of the Congress of his confirmation hearing at the end of January that would not solve the scores within the office.
“And as I said in his office, I have no interest, or wish and, if confirmed, I will not go back,” Patel told Senator Chris Coons, a Democrat of Delaware that serves in the Judicial Committee. “There will be no politicization in the FBI, there will be no tasks of remuneration actions by any FBI, if they will confirm me as director of the FBI.”
The news of the reallocations was previously reported by CNN. FBI leadership has the authority to reallocate employees based on office needs, but the decision to reallocate agents five years later, being taken as reprisals by previous and current agents.
It is not clear if the FBI has sent agents to the division of the agency responsible for investigating accusations of misconduct, as would be typical. Anyway, it is very unusual for the FBI to visit the behavior that had analyzed the legs five years before.
The office can move employees at will whenever they maintain the same salary and position. If your reallocation was motivated by retaliation or discrimination, there are legal options for agents to pursue.
The FBI said in a statement that “it is our standard practice to refuse to comment on personnel matters.”
The agents told their superiors at that time that they tried team, and the team, and the team, and the team, and the team, and the team, and the team, and the team, and the team, and the equipment, and the equipment are tactile.
The office reviewed its behavior, but found no reason to conduct formal investigation.
The agents also said that their kneeling did not intend to be a political protest, and it was not found that they violate the policies of the agency or the Hatch law, a law of the era of the depression devised to ensure that the federal workforce operates free of political infusion.
At least one of the women, a superior executive, was already reallocated in silence before the other agents were notified in recent days that were being transferred. And shortly after Mr. Patel became a director, a senior official of the office office in the FBI agents association who was involved in the episode was forced to resign.
In April, the FBI suspended an analyst in the so -called enemies list of Mr. Patel. The analyst, Brian Autten, was put on administrative license with pay.
Previous and current agents have said that FBI staff should never be deployed to protect monuments and federal property, as they were in 2020, because they are not equipped or trained to deal with protesters or mass confrontation.
A 2024 report by the Inspector General of the Department of Justice found that the FBI deployments on June 1 and 3 “lacked proper planning” and “did not provide sufficient orientation to the personnel regarding their mission and legal authorities.”
The report added that the implementations, “sending armed agents to respond to civil disturbances for which they lacked training or appropriate equipment, created security risks for agents and the public.”
